When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.

My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.

When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect. His perfection is an absurdity. It's too hard to face.

Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.

I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.

I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.